A minor proposal by Governor Cuomo to limit wage awards in cases of binding arbitration for police and firefighters has brought rage from the union representing smokeeaters. They say the cap on awards is a frontal assault on labor by a "purportedly progressive governor in a state that is a citadel for organized labor."
In New York, you only get to call yourself progressive if you never cross the public employee unions and that's why the Governor was only able to make modest progress last year on pension reform.
The state's Taylor Law granted binding arbitration to the uniformed services in exchange for their right to strike.
Caps on arbitrated pay stokes fire - Times Union
7 comments:
Public workers USE money, private workers MAKE money. Binding arbitration is unfair to the workers who GENERATE money! A reason why we are taxed to death!
Tell your fireman that, 132, or better yet, tell the officer who pulls over the DWI that almost ran you over. A contract is a contract. If the gov't doesn't like the terms, negotiate a different one.
Is "smoke" code for "tax dollars"?
And Gov Mussolini zigs and he zags. After slithering through a gangster gun law, now he wants to go the other way and limit bucks to the unions. Ya never know which way the Thug will lean. And all to market himself as preziediint. What a friggin joke. Is this part of the MADDDNISS INN NUWWWW YAAAAWWWKKKKKK?
Why do public union members think we are knocking the job they do when we question their pay, their benefits or they way either or negotiated. We appreciate the job they do, but why do we have to listen to Danny Donohue tell us how good they are -
Let's keep the argument on the merits. The public union employees are paid and treated better than most private sector employees. Some have dangerous jobs but some private sector employees do the same or similar type jobs.
Driving our kids to school, sure we want them save, but doesn't Freeman bus drivers do just as good?
8:43 the answer to your question is because they are drama queens. You mention danger...
The fact is that firefighting is not that dangerous of a job. If it were not for 9/11 the statistic would put them even lower on the list of dangerous jobs. If you factor out the deaths attributed to fat-so heart attacks and car wrecks while recklessly driving to fires, they are about as dangerous of a job as a secretary.
Commercial fishing, mining, logging, roofing, sanitation worker, sheriff...are all more dangerous, even counting the misleading heart attack/reckless driving/ 9-11 deaths.
That is why there is a waiting list to fill vacancies in fire departments, in every city including Watertown.
I can see where the Sheriff would be dangerous????????????????
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